Hack to the TechCrunch Top!

Posted on November 26, 2013
By Mackensie Smith

Hackathons are a thing of madness. With crazy coding, dangerously delightful designs and insane just-might-work ideas, the
24-hour TechCrunch Bangalore hackathon on November 14, 2013 was no exception. This particular hackathon was led by Ashish Sinah, CEO and Founder of NextBigWhat, “India’s Biggest Platform For Technology & Entrepreneurs.”

500 hackers – bringing skills of design, development and
product management – packed into a crowded ballroom in the gorgeous
Vivante by Taj hotel. The final products ranged from creative to useful,
innovative to hilarious, yet all reflected the common pure ingenuity
that ignites when spark-powered minds come together to create.

One of two winning teams, Decipher and Serial Hackers,
included InMobi’s Senior Architect, Inder Singh (seen rocking his InMobi
sweatshirt in the photo above) and Ritwik Saikia. They created Ginni, a
wireless tag that pairs objects like a purse with one’s smartphone, so
that the owner is notified if the object is moved outside of bluetooth
perimeter.

“We wanted to solve a problem with a device at an affordable price,”said Singh to
The Times of India.

Inder has worked at InMobi since 2011. As a Senior Architect he works for the team tackling all things
Hadoop. He has been focused on building data platforms adhering to the InMobi data scale.

Ritwik recently joined the data platform team at InMobi to
work on some of the most challenging data problems He has worked as an
enterprising entrepreneur for the last two years after multiple tech
roles at
Yahoo!

The victorious team scored tickets to the TechCrunch Mega
Event in Delhi planned for August 2014, and will have a chance to be at
TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2014. They also cashed in with Rs.
50,000.

InMobi CEO and Founder,
Naveen Tewari, also highlighted the TechCrunch Bangalore event. He participated in a ‘Star Chat’ with Alok Kejriwal, 2Win Group Founder and CEO. The two spoke about mobile advertising and what makes the world’s largest independent mobile network work.